Coon v. Vaughn

The following is the complaint of the appellee against the appellant:

*90“ James M. Vaughn complains of Moses J. Coon, and. says, that, on the-day of February, 1873, from a fall down and off* a-pair of stairs, he broke his right leg abovQ the knee, and also greatly bruised and injured his leg and body ; and the defendant, then being a practising physician and surgeon, as such, in consideration of a reasonable reward to be thereafter paid to him by the plaintiff, the said defendant then and there being in the practice of medicine and surgery, undertook and promised the plaintiff faithfully,…